Kelly Jensen

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This is the second part of a two-part series focused on building voter guides for local elections. The first part, How to Build a Voters’ Guide for School Board Elections, came from Frank Strong, who has created these incredible election tools for Texas voters since 2022. Part two of this series focuses on building a voter guide for local public library board elections.

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This year, the groundbreaking nonfiction children’s picture book And Tango Makes Three celebrates its 20th anniversary. First published in April 2005, Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson’s story about two male penguins at the Central Park Zoo caring for and hatching an egg together. Roy and Silo, the penguins at the center of the book, shared their names with the real chinstrap penguins who formed a bond at the zoo.

1 week ago | bookriot.com | Kelly Jensen

May has been a busy month in the world of young adult book news. There’s plenty here about adaptations, including series renewals, but there’s also a lot here highlighting new and forthcoming books you’ll definitely want to drop on your TBR. Before we get to this big linkopalooza, something you might be interested in is Book Riot’s roundup of the Best Beach Reads of All Time.

1 week ago | bookriot.com | Kelly Jensen

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. May has sure flown by, though it has been a wild month of weather here in the midwest. We’ve had frost, we’ve had nearly 100-degree heat, we’ve had tornadoes and hail, and we’ve had a haboob. I’m ready for the more predictable warmth that comes with the actual start of summer, if nothing else.

1 week ago | bookriot.com | Kelly Jensen

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. I love books about cults. I have for years, and any opportunity to get my hands on one, I’ll take. I don’t care if it’s fiction or nonfiction; I love thinking about how one person or group of people can influence an entire crowd.